Wrap Text
Anglo American Kumba – Sishen and Kolomela mines achieve IRMA 75 performance on responsible mining standard
Kumba Iron Ore Limited
A member of the Anglo American plc group
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
(Registration number 2005/015852/06)
Share code: KIO
ISIN: ZAE000085346
("Kumba")
Anglo American Kumba – Sishen and Kolomela mines achieve IRMA 75 performance on responsible mining standard
Kumba Iron Ore announces that its Sishen and Kolomela mines in South Africa have been assessed against the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance's
(IRMA) comprehensive mining standard, achieving the IRMA 75 level of performance. This reflects Anglo American's integrated approach to sustainability and
its commitment to transparency in striving for the highest levels of responsible iron ore production.
Mpumi Zikalala, Chief Executive of Kumba Iron Ore said: "We are proud of our teams' efforts and the outstanding progress made across both of our operations
to promote responsible mining practices. As part of our commitment to leading in ESG practices, we are dedicated to delivering premium quality iron ore
products that help to reduce carbon emissions in the steel-making process, while helping our customers meet the growing demand for responsibly sourced
materials in an efficient and independently verified way. Through the IRMA assurance process, we have been a ble to evaluate our sustainability performance
at Sishen and Kolomela mines, identify areas for improvement and ensure that we strive to adhere to the highest standards of responsible mining".
Themba Mkhwanazi, Anglo American's Regional Director – Africa and Australia, said: "We are pleased that Kumba is the first iron ore producer in Africa to
complete the IRMA audit, providing stakeholders with a way of accounting for sustainability practices that is transparent, verifiable, and comparable.
Launched last year, our digital traceability platform Valutrax™ is available to customers purchasing Anglo American mined products, helping them to trace
metals and minerals through a tailored selection of key provenance and sustainability indicators, including third-party assurance such as IRMA. The IRMA
results demonstrate further progress on our Sustainable Mining Plan commitment of having all our operations undergo third-party audits against responsible
mine certification standards by 2025. IRMA improves our ability to build an understanding of areas where we can continue to improve our ESG performance.
Aimee Boulanger, Executive Director of IRMA, said "Through detailed IRMA audit reports, mining companies, communities and companies that purchase
mined materials can gain the information they need to decide what's going well — and what may require more attention — at specific mines. The Sishen and
Kolomela reports demonstrate that these mines can point to transparent, independent evaluations of their environmental and social performance."
The IRMA scoring system recognises four levels of performance: IRMA Transparency, in which a mine is third-party-assessed and publicly shares its scores;
IRMA 50, 75 or 100, signifying that a mine meets a core set of critical requirements together with at least 50%, 75% or 100% of the requirements in each of
the four sections of the Standard for Responsible Mining being met respectively.
IRMA's Standard for Responsible Mining has been developed over a decade through a public consultation process with more than 100 different individuals and
organisations, including mining companies, customers and the ultimate downstream users of mined products, NGOs, labour unions, and communities and is
considered to be one of the most rigorous certification processes.
The link to the assessment of Kumba's mines can be found on IRMA's website at: https://responsiblemining.net/.
Johannesburg
27 March 2024
Sponsor
RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)
For further information, please contact:
Company secretary
Fazila Patel
Fazila.patel@angloamerican.com
Tel: +27 12 683 7060
Mobile: +27 83 297 2293
Investors Media
Penny Himlok Sinah Phochana
penny.himlok@angloamerican.com sinah.phochana@angloamerican.com
Tel: +27 12 622 8324 Tel: +27 12 683 7019
Mobile: +27 82 781 1888 Mobile: +27 76 066 0655
Notes to editors:
Kumba Iron Ore Limited, a member of the Anglo American plc group, is a leading value-adding supplier of high quality iron ore to the global steel industry.
Kumba produces iron ore in South Africa at Sishen and Kolomela mines in the Northern Cape Province. Kumba exports iron ore to customers around the globe
including in China, Japan, South Korea and a number of countries in Europe and the Middle East.
www.angloamericankumba.com
Anglo American is a leading global mining company, and our products are the essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of
world-class competitive operations, with a broad range of future development options, provides many of the future-enabling metals and minerals for a
cleaner, greener, more sustainable world and that meet the fast growing every day demands of billions of consumers. With our people at the heart of our
business, we use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and to mine, process, move and market our products to our
customers – safely and sustainably.
As a responsible producer of copper, nickel, platinum group metals, diamonds (through De Beers), and premium quality iron ore and steelmaking coal – with
crop nutrients in development – we are committed to being carbon neutral across our operations by 2040. More broadly, our Sustainable Mining Plan
commits us to a series of stretching goals to ensure we work towards a healthy environment, creating thriving communities and building trust as a corporate
leader. We work together with our business partners and diverse stakeholders to unlock enduring value from precious natural resources for the benefit of the
communities and countries in which we operate, for society as a whole, and for our shareholders. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people's
lives.
www.angloamerican.com
Date: 27-03-2024 09:00:00
Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE').
The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of
the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct,
indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on,
information disseminated through SENS.
Sharenet Sites 
